Stop/ The topographer, a relative of the head of the SP in Berat, builds without permission in a protected area

2023-12-12 22:01:49, Denoncim CNA

Stop/ The topographer, a relative of the head of the SP in Berat, builds without

Our newsroom received a complaint about an unauthorized construction in the "28 November" neighborhood in Berat, a classified buffer zone, controlled by the Institute of Cultural Monuments.

According to the complaint, the one who is building is Dejni Zylyftari, an employee as a surveyor in the Municipality of this city, but at the same time also a relative of the Speaker of the SP in Berat, Valbona Zylyftari, who is the prefect of the district.

Informant: I am the heir of this house here. I had a house opposite here, someone sold it, we don't know who bought it. When I came here, he had carried out works, but they were not visible at that time because it was only the floor, it was destroyed like a house.

Journalist: Was the second floor completely destroyed?

The informant: He had destroyed it, and he had only preserved the structure of the first floor, these walls. And from the infrastructure he has built, he has worried us a lot, that it has come over our house. Because here the alleys are very narrow, 2 meters, 1 meter and 80. If he goes about 70 centimeters as he left the house now, he comes over the house, we can't stay calm in our lives. We thought he was going to make it a house, he is making it a hotel, because it can be seen from the structure. Even he himself has accepted me. This person is coming from abroad and this is a municipal employee, that's the hardest part.

Journalist: Is he a municipal employee?

The informant: He is a municipal employee, he works as a surveyor, and this is the first person who must apply the law. He should teach me what to do, not do it himself. Look, it's time to get a man from the street there, get a man from the street to look at it, because we are uniform here. I don't know where this man finds his strength.

Experts show that the place where it is being built is not allowed. However, concrete or iron materials are not allowed to be used in this area.

After our finding, we turned to the Berat Institute of Cultural Monuments to ask if there is a permit for this construction. The answer was that no permission was granted by IMKK.

Institute of Cultural Monuments, Berat: According to what the director tells me, there is permission only from the Municipality...

Journalist : Is there no Institute?

Institute of Cultural Monuments, Berat: Not from the Institute.

We informed IMKK and the Ministry of Culture, where the lawyer told us that all measures will be taken to return the situation to the pre-intervention conditions.

In the municipality of Berat, no action has been taken even though before the denunciation in "Stop" another one was done in the IMT of the municipality.

The National Institute of Monuments: This was only received at the Municipality, that is, at the Ministry of Culture... The Municipality should not give permission without obtaining approval from us first, and the point is that the regional directorate should have reacted here. They take it to Tirana to remove it... Now let me be honest, because at the end of the day we all answer for ourselves. Now the truth is that the regional directorate, as a specialized institution, has them in administration and the moment it sees a work, it goes and verifies that you have a permit, you don't have a permit and must suspend the works and the notification goes to IMT. This was not done by the regional directorate. This thing is done now, that is, it will be done now... Is it worth it now, that he has finished it, he must now return it to its previous state with Law 27 of 2018 on Cultural Heritage. A request will be made to this gentleman and he will be told that the project has not received the approval of KKTM, which is the National Council of Cultural Heritage, and the object will be returned to its previous state.

The provisional head of IMT Berat, Gerti Konti, came to the field himself, where he found the construction without permission with concrete and iron in a prohibited area, a cultural monument. The count said that measures will be taken, fine and demolition of the construction from the structures of IMT Berat.

Journalist: Here is the bride, here is the groom! That is to say, it is clear, it is built, it is done...

IMT Berat, Gerti Kondi: It seems, it is something that...doesn't need...

Journalist: I don't want a pencil or pen to understand that it is a new construction...

IMT Berat, Gerti Kondi: OK!

Journalist: The idea is that when you find a construction without a permit, what is followed as a lawyer?

IMT Berat, Gerti Kondi: As a lawyer, he is followed... a report is made to the police, he follows links for construction without a permit for the side of the legal violation at the prosecutor's office. The IMT part implements decisions with fines, demolition orders, all chain procedures.

Journalist: Will all these measures be taken now?

IMT Berat, Gerti Kondi : Yes, measures will be taken. What the law provides that will be penalized, will be penalized. Every measure will be taken./ tvklan